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om the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

A daybook; a journal. [Obs.] Tatler.

A book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of Hafiz. [Persia]

Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books.

n abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

proof, or support of anything else; -- in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents an…

The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.

rs of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.] Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book…

The day of the final judgment. I could not tell till doomsday. Chaucer. Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.

The back of a book. [Obs.] Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. Wood.

old coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists below. See Illust. of Double-framed floor. -- Double flower. See Double, a., 4. -- Double-framed floor (Arch…

A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.

n or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. Macaulay.

hing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.

One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt. I never knew this town without dunces of figure. Swift.

Having twelve leaves to a sheet; as, a duodecimo from, book, leaf, size, etc.

The Apocryphal book of Ecclesiasticus. [Obs.]

One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.